Entertainment Weekly's Scores

For 2,988 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 80% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 19% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
2,988 music reviews
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 33
    Embarrassing.... It's hard to tell if [Ballard's] hyper-slick style is to blame, or if Lynne has simply hung herself. [16 Nov 2001, p.172]
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 33
    Amounts to nothing more than a party of five million bland cliches. [11 Oct 2002, p.82]
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 33
    The band has never seemed so stale. [14 Mar 2003, p.66]
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 33
    Without any real scream-along, kick-ass songs, this is just a One Way Ticket to Hell. Period. [2 Dec 2005, p.81]
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 33
    As tedious as an episode of Teletubbies--and nearly as simplistic. [13 Oct 2006, p.131]
    • Metascore: 39
    • Critic Score 33
    The pair have an MTV reality show, which only reminds us we'd probably be better off listening to one of the dudes from "I Love Money." [22/29 Aug 2008, p.125]
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 33
    Hazards of Love drowns in convoluted plots, blustery guest vocalists, and comically out-of-place guitar shredding.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Critic Score 33
    A nimble, almost balletic rapper on countless mixtapes, singles, and Billboard-topping collaborations, the 27-year-old comes across both muddled and belligerent on the much-delayed, extensively leaked Rebirth.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 25
    File under: Bunkum. [21 June 2002, p.84]
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 25
    [Its] Atari-quality grooves and soulless Berlin homages reek of '80s hipster trash. [4 June 2004, p.80]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 25
    If only they didn't sound like a dying Flock of Seagulls. [17 May 2002, p.78]
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 25
    Unless you're bound in an herbal body wrap, there's simply no acceptable reason to listen to this New Age nonsense. [11/24/2000, p.82]
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 25
    The songs combine the most pretentious and overworked elements of their influences. [21 Mar 2003, p.112]
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 25
    Korn remain technically proficient, but Take A Look In The Mirror serves only to make the case that the genre has officially screamed itself into caricature. [12 Dec 2003, p.77]
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 25
    The ideas are thin and the beats thinner. [14 Mar 2003, p.66]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 25
    It's not that this wise ass trio of lucky punks make terrible music -- their crass, hyperkinetic tunes are just the thing for adolescents who find Green Day too intellectually challenging -- but this collection is wholly unwarranted from a band whose breakthrough album is barely a year old.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Critic Score 25
    His indie-circuit friends will be amused, but no one else will. [4 Mar 2005, p.73]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 25
    Full of screeching, hollering, and contrived "yo' mama" jive talk. [27 May 2005, p.141]
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 25
    An awkward attempt that neither improves upon nor updates the trio's original blueprint. [28 Oct 2005, p.89]
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 25
    Iggy sings ballads. In French. With clarinet solos. He also dabbles in Dixieland jazz, spoken word, and chilled electro-lounge music on his 15th solo album. If that sounds hideous, or hilarious, it's actually a little bit of both.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 25
    Not even superproducer Flood (U2, Depeche Mode) can save the postpunk singer from misery. Or from overacting.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 25
    There are only a few moments when Symphonicities doesn't seem completely preposterous.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 25
    The bulk of Lulu sounds like your dad's drunk friend reciting his self-penned erotica over a melting ReLoad cassette.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 16
    Cumulative effect? Soul-depleting. [1 Nov 2002, p.70]
    • Metascore: 15
    • Critic Score 0
    Other rappers might hesitate to brag about marrying into bling, but Federline isn't self-conscious about it.